Christopher
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Ada Palmer:
I'm not sure if this is a request for a spoiler or not, so I'll ask anyways. In book 1 we get Mycroft's thoughts on Diderot, Voltaire, and de Sade. In book 2 we get Diogenes. Does the title of book 3 suggest we'll get Nietzsche next?
Ada Palmer
Good question! And good guess, but Mycroft tends to reach earlier in time, not later. The origin of "The Will to Battle" (and the epigram that starts Book 3) is:
“For Warre, consisteth not in Battell onely, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather.” Hobbes, Leviathan, I 13.
“For Warre, consisteth not in Battell onely, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather.” Hobbes, Leviathan, I 13.
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